Tag: Stonewall
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Dumb Justice [Formerly Blind]
The Race to the Bottom Decried as a form of “gutter politics”, Labour’s attack ad on Rishi Sunak didn’t go down well on Twitter – with 22 million views but just a little over 3,000 likes, and countless negative comments. Some people have defended it on the grounds that the media attention will have ensured…
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Peak Trans: Part 2
More absurdity from those who should know better. Also see Peak Trans: Part 1 Head of Trans inclusion at Stonewall, Kirrin Medcalf stating during Allison Bailey’s discrimination case that “bodies are not inherently male or female”. And Stonewall claim that nobody is arguing biological sex doesn’t exist… The American Civil Liberties Union tweeting a list…
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The public has spoken and they’re broadly gender critical: The More in Common report and other polls
This week, More in Common published a report on ‘Britons and Gender Identity’, which combined surveys of 5000 people with 20 focus group findings that explored the British public’s views on what could be crudely termed the ‘trans issue’. More in Common (a think tank set up in 2017 in memory of Jo Cox MP)…
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An escalation in hyperbole: An Ideology still struggling with reality
The Pink News article can be read here. Quoting a barely minute-long section of the conversation and framing it with this title: ‘Gender critical’ author Helen Joyce says she wants to ‘reduce’ number of trans people: ‘Chilling’, they knew exactly what they were doing. As did other prominent figures like Owen Jones, Laurie Penny, and…
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The safety of women in prison shouldn’t be a controversial topic
When it comes to the rights of women in prison, being accommodated separately from men is the barest minimum of expectations. The need for prisons to be single-sex is obvious for safety and privacy reasons. At the very least, that somebody with a penis shouldn’t be in a women’s prison really shouldn’t be a controversial…
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Peak Trans: A Liberal’s Case For Reality: Part 6
How is an approach to ‘rights’ and ‘inclusivity’ so detached from reality and so devoid of even a basic moral compass of genuine long-term benefit to anybody?
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Rainbow Heresy: A Liberal’s Case For Reality: Part 5
Part 5: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Transphobe? / Lesbians and the New Homophobia / LGB Alliance / Kathleen Stock / J.K. Rowling / Dave Chappelle
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Medical Negligence and the Betrayal of Children: A Liberal’s Case for Reality: Part 4
And it’s why our party’s recently passed conversion therapy policy is so flawed. The conflation of sexual orientation and gender identity runs the risk of preventing normal exploratory therapy for what are often extremely vulnerable and confused young people. An affirmation-only approach to this goes against basic medical ethics (the rejection of amendments or actual…
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A Liberal’s Case for Reality Against Gender Identity Ideology: Part 1
Part 1: Trans Rights? Yes. Toxic In Your Face Activism? No / A Strange Kind of Liberalism / Detail Free Slogans / When Reality Wins / Stonewall
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How not to do a media interview – courtesy of Benjamin Cohen, CEO of Pink News
There’s been a lot of coverage already about Stonewall and gender identity in the past few weeks. Indeed, there’s been much written about the topic for far longer than that too. Madness probably lies in attempting to add to it. So, all I’ll say of my own view is that I think it’s a very…